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Re: What do you believe buddhism has that 'other' philosophies havent?
(Quote) Just to leap in on Vinyl's behalf... Buddhism is a philosophy and a well developed one. This can be stated without proviso. It is also a metaphysical position, a religion, a practice and a sc… (View Post)
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Re: Neo-Buddhism
My guess is that rituals and worship have their uses and benefits as long as we don't imagine that they are ends in themselves. But an hadith of the prophet Mohammed tells us 'An hour's contemplation… (View Post)
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Re: Downloading Music Vs. The 2nd Precept?
Yeah sure. Download all you like. Never mind the precepts. Then people like me can go bankrupt. My entire catalogue has just been put up for free on an illegal Panamanian site. Only low-res MP3s so i… (View Post)
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Re: I'm a Mormon!
Ha. If someone jumped into a lake to save me I'd assume their practice was proceeding nicely. (View Post)
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Re: But why is the path a difficult one?
God? I think the Buddha knew more than any hypothetical God. As I understand him this clouded mind would be both the result of our evolutionary history and its cause, a feedback process that the Budd… (View Post)
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